Ordinary Signalman J/30688 Maurice Frederick HARDINGE

Ordinary Signalman J/30688 Maurice Frederick Hardinge{gallery}OSig M F Hardinge{/gallery}Royal Navy aboard HMS Newmarket
Died at sea in the Eastern Mediterranean, 17th July 1917, aged 18. His vessel was torpedoed by U-Boat UC-38

• Commemorated: Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Panel 25
  
• Awarded British War and Victory Medals with two Good Conduct Stripes
  
• Son of Gilbert and Bessie Alice Hardinge of 25 Coleshill Street, Atherstone 
• NNWFHS Memorial: Atherstone

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Ord Signalman Hardinge
• NNWFHS Atherstone War Memorial Page
• Portsmouth Naval Memorial

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born 1899 at Dulwich, London
  
• Lived at 57 Elverscroft Road, Camberwell [1901]
• Lived at 7 Stepaside, Mochdre, Nr Newtown, Wales [1911]
  
• Was a schoolboy in 1911

The Sinking of HMS Newmarket

HMS Newmarket was an Auxilliary Minesweeper which was torpedoed and sunk south of Nikaria Island, Aegean Sea by U-Boat UC-38 with the loss of 44 of her crew. Three survivors were taken prisoner.